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Putnam Patriot
Putnam, Windham County, Connecticut
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A letter from Taft School defends Headmaster Horace D. Taft's pro-prohibition stance, arguing that managing boys would sway the anti-prohibition editor to agree, supported by quotes from education experts praising the Eighteenth Amendment's impact on reducing drinking and improving discipline in schools and at Yale.
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To the Editor of The Putnam Patriot:
In a recent issue you pay a deserved tribute to Mr. Horace D. Taft, Headmaster of the Taft School. In it you say: "While Mr. Taft is on the other side of the prohibition argument from ourselves, we have for him the greatest regard." I venture to say that, if you had to deal with three hundred boys and knew boys as Mr. Taft knows boys, you would be on the same side of the prohibition argument as Mr. Taft. May I quote two men?
Mr. J. W. Crabtree, Secretary of the National Education Association, recently said: "Conditions in the high schools are much better than before prohibition, with respect to drinking and behavior. This is doubly significant in view of the fact that the high school enrollment has grown since 1920 from two million to more than five million students. Unquestionably the Eighteenth Amendment has benefited the schools beyond measure."
Professor C. C. Clark of Yale, who has been a member of the committee on discipline since 1910, recently said: "Prohibition has been a great thing for Yale. I know conditions intimately. In the old days our committee was constantly busy with cases involving intoxication and disorders originating from it. Now we have practically no business at all of the kind to transact. Moreover, this is in spite of the fact that in the old days we rarely troubled ourselves about a case of mere intoxication if it had not resulted in some kind of public disorder, whereas now intoxication of itself is regarded as calling for the severest penalty. The present situation in regard to liquor as compared with the situation of old times is as day compared to night."
NEWTON B. HOBART.
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Newton B. Hobart.
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To The Editor Of The Putnam Patriot
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experience dealing with boys, as headmaster horace d. taft has with three hundred at taft school, would convince the anti-prohibition editor to support prohibition like taft, as demonstrated by expert testimonies on its benefits to student behavior and school discipline.
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